Re: Coercive STH - some real world tests and updated RFC

On 28/02/15 08:40, François Laupretre wrote: > My opinion, but that's only mine, is that I would favor deprecating null to scalar, even > for internal functions. It would add deprecation messages but we'd end up with a cleaner code. null is a very specific 'state' for anybody working with databases. It means that no value was found. Mapping that to a default value for future processing is a job for the application rather than the data packet as returned. It ONLY needs to overridden from a default "" or 0 in cases where the simple default is not required, but on the whole the default 'case' is ALL that is needed. That null is also false in situations where a bool is required is also natural. It's now having to go through all the code and manually add these quite natural casts which is the problem here. It's not a bug or mistake, it just flows in the whole process. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk